GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 241, 20 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

GERMANY'S LOSSES. TEN TIMES MORE THAN BRITISH. AN UNPALATABLE TRUTH. UNPARALLELED SACRIFICES FAIL. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received March 19, sj>s p.m. London. March 19. The London Times' military correspondent states that th 0 population of ■German is a third larger than ours, but ■ the German casualties are ten times more numerous. We read our casualty lists daily with set faces. \\ hat would We think if the casualties were proportionately as large as the enemy's, whose inmost thoughts, though bravely concealed, must dwell on the unpalatable troth that after unparalleled saeri fires of life, monev and material Germany has failed to "establish a predominance "enabling her to aspire to favorable ■terms of peace?

THE WAR CHEST OPENED. | GERMANISED NEWS. j London, March" 18. j Germanv has opened the ,Spandau war chest, and new is 73 British sovereigns B re cominjr into circulation via. Scandinavia. (The war client in the .Tulms Tower at S'pandau is -<i'l to have contained six million sterling in "old, as a war reserve. Gold is needed to pav foreiorn nation-, for n"od- imported by Germ*nJV) March H. Tlie captain o? an American steamer Reports that when .entering Bremenhaven the Germans confined the crew below to prevent observation of the naval preparations. He sruv the flotilla of submarines was larger than anvtliing hp had seen before. Tie learn*! that the Germans were turning out one daily.